| Curriculum Studies | ||||
| *Pam Brown | Associate Professor | •Teacher research, teacher autonomy, and media literacy. | pamela.u.brown@okstate.edu | |
| *Kathryn Castle | Professor | •Teacher research and the application of constructivist theory and phenomenological theory to knowledge construction. | kathryn.castle@okstate.edu | |
| *Gretchen Schwarz | Professor | •Media literacy •Graphic novels |
gretchen.schwarz@okstate.edu | |
| *Hongyu Wang | Associate Professor | •Post-structural and Asian philosophies, cross-cultural life histories and thought, autobiography and curriculum, international studies, gender issues, psychoanalysis and culture, chaos and complexity theory, and multicultural education. | hongyu.wang@okstate.edu | |
| Elementary Education | ||||
| *Caroline Beller | Assistant Professor | •Science education and professional development •Constructivist learning |
caroline.beller@okstate.edu | |
| David Buckner | Assistant Professor | •Civics, service preparation, teacher preparation |
david.buckner@okstate.edu | |
| Jean Dockers | •Science education, integrated curriculum, inquiry | jean.dockers@okstate.edu | ||
| Juliana Utley | Assistant Professor | •Mathematical Dispositions (This includes beliefs, attitudes, efficacy, etc.) •Mathematical knowledge of pre- and in-service teachers |
juliana.utley@okstate.edu | |
| Julie Thomas | Professor | •Elementary Science Teaching and Learning •Science Teacher Professional Development •STEM Career Development K-16 •Professional Learning Communities Gifted Education |
julie.p.thomas@okstate.edu | |
| Literacy | ||||
| *Sandee Goetze | Associate Professor | •Literacy and Technology, Literacy Assessment, RTI and Literacy Intervention | sandra.goetze@okstate.edu | |
| *Suzii Parsons | Associate Professor | •Literature for children and young adults from a critical literacy perspective (currently conducting a study of how adoption is portrayed); teacher education (conducting a longitudinal study of the effectiveness of the ExCEL program; following teacher candidates into the field to determine how the instruction we give in nonfiction reading and writing instruction transfers to their teaching); nonfictiion reading and writing instruction |
sue.parsons@okstate.edu | |
| Jennifer Sanders | Assistant Professor | •Literacy/Art in the classroom | jen.sanders10@okstate.edu | |
| *Barbara Walker | Professor | barbara.walker@okstate.edu | ||
| *David Yellin | Professor | •Whole Language, Writing Development, Children’s Literature, Oral Language Development. | david.yellin@okstate.edu | |
| Qiuying Wang | Assistant Professor | •Curriculum studies, multicultural education, Native American education, East/West cross-cultural inquiry and life history, globalization and education, poststructuralist philosophy and curriculum theory, gender issues in curriculum. | qiuying.wang@okstate.edu | |
| Occ. Ed. Stud | ||||
| Belinda McCharen | Associate Professor | •Using career and technical education for high school reform, career development issues, career self-efficacy, self-efficacy of females, impact of career and technical education on student academic achievement, •Gender equity in high school engineering programs. |
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| *Lynna Ausburn | Associate Professor | •Theoretical foundations for virtual reality in education and training; interaction of virtual reality with types of learning tasks and learner characteristics; effective design of virtual reality programs | lynna.ausburn@okstate.edu | |
| *Mary Jo Self | Associate Professor | maryjo.self@okstate.edu | ||
| Ji Hoon Song | Assistant Professor | |||
| Secondary Education | ||||
| Jeffert Hawkins | Associate Professor | • Content analysis-text analysis • Curriculum and instruction • Education-secondary, middle, higher • Multicultural-diversity, social justices, anti-bias, equity • Peace education-education for peace • Social studies-history, geography, political science • Teacher education-pre-services/in-services |
jeffrey.hawkins@okstate.edu | |
| *Pat Jordan | Associate Professor | •The conceptual knowledge base of pre-service teachers, international education reforms, the effect of an inquiry-based approach on teaching mathematics, and the correlation of mathematics understanding and drawing. | patricia.jordan@okstate.edu | |
| *Nadine Olson | Associate Professor | •Second-language acquisition pedagogy •Cross-cultural studies •Spanish language and literatures •English Language Learners and Learning •Program development in world languages •Assessment of world-language programs •Proficiency-based language instruction •Assessment in second-languages |
nadine.olson@okstate.edu | |
| *Virginia Worley | Associate Professor | virginia.worley@okstate.edu | ||
| Special Education | ||||
| *Christine Ormsbee | Professor /Head | • Special education-improving general classroom environment for at risk/exceptional • Special education-pre-assessment/pre-referral processes • Special education-procedures and interventions to prevent special education identification • Special education-serving exceptional children in the general classroom |
ormsbee@okstate.edu | |
| Allan Allday | Assistant Proffesor | •Teacher behavior and how it affects student behavior. •Expulsion/suspension and its affect on academic performance. | allan.allday@okstate.edu | |
| Jamie Van Dycke | Assistant Proffesor | •Secondary Transition; Self-determination and self-advocacy; familial and sibling issues within families that have members with a disability | jamielv@okstate.edu | |
| Alice Giacobbe | Assistant Proffesor | •Mentoring beginning soecial education teachers; Reading methods for students with disabilities; Co-teaching best practices and school administartors | alice.giacobbe@okstate.edu | |